The 24th International Byzantine Studies Congress was the first Byzantine congress I attended in my academic life, and it was exciting to have the…

The press meeting for the exhibition Mindful Seed Speaking Soil: Village Institutes of the Republic 1940-1954, organized by the collaborative efforts of İstanbul Research Institute and…

Education During the Atatürk Era Dated 29 December 1923, the Ministry of Education sent a memorandum to directorates of education. It began with the…

Alfons Maria Schneider, one of the polymaths of his time, illuminated the history of Istanbul with his research, digs and publications from the 1930s…

Focused on the Village Institutes as one of the most dramatic processes of evolution in the history of the Turkish Republic and organized by…

The geographical position of Istanbul was not always how we know it to be today. It has only been a little over a century…

Glorya (Saray) and Şark (Lüks) Movie Theaters, Beyoğlu, 1930s The Glorya and Şark movie theatres, besides being Edoardo De Nari’s designs, also happen to…

You can explore Ekrem Hakkı Ayverdi’s remarkable collection at the Ekrem Hakkı Ayverdi (1899 – 1984): Architectural Historian, Restorator, Collector exhibition. This time on the blog we take…

İstanbul holds a leading place among research areas of contemporary sociology and urban design. In the wide spectrum of research fields, ranging from archaeology…

The two-volume title Broken Bits of Byzantium is a rare book also published in French under the title Restes de la reine des villes. It…